I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.